You should likely update the plugin description: > This plugin provides both real-time and on-demand scanning of Java files with CheckStyle 5.9 from within IDEA. Also, any plans to support Checkstyle 6.1? Cant seem to use full properties of the AnnotationLocation

I have custom rules for my corporate project (here I have this checkbox manually selected, becuase the codebase is bigger than "hello world" and is hard to keep it without checkstyle erros). But for the rest projects internal and external (e.g. from github), I don't have any. Anyway thanks for your hints, I'll try to live with this or write my own plugin :)

If you don't have any custom rules, why do you want the plugin installed? I might be open to removing the default rules file (post-thought, of course). If this would interest you as a solution feel free to raise a feature request via GitHub. I currently have no plans to change the default for the checkbox you mentioned, however.

I mean change it in the CheckStyle rules file that you're using. If you've set severity to error, it should be an actual error. If the project doesn't have a matching CheckStyle rules file, you can turn it off via Project or Module settings as appropriate.

I'm not sure this is good idea to keep this checkbox not selected as a default. Working in a corporation, dealing with big projects all developers would have this checkbox selected because code is not perfect there. Now I'd like to clone a repo from some books/tutorial/github. They don't follow a checkstyle too. Again I have to switch this checkbox. You mention about chaning this level in the file. Could you be more specific please? You mean in the jar file? Maybe somebody find this thread and won't bother you anymore.